Happy Friday!

Hope everyone had a good week at school. I know you're ready for Spring Break (just wish I got one!). Whatever your plans, be safe and have fun.

Don't forget, though, The Point is meeting as usual on Wednesday.

For those of you looking to stick around for a few days, here's what Christianity Today (http://www.christianitytoday.com) has to say about Ice Age: The Meltdown, opening today:

Ice Age The Meltdown (PG): Ice Age: The Meltdown offers up more of what made the first film a hit: the woolly mammoth Manfred is still coping with the loss of his family, and possibly his entire species; he and his friends, Sid the sloth and Diego the sabretooth tiger, escape several perilous situations as they embark on a migration together; and the story is punctuated every now and then by hilarious scenes featuring Scrat, the mute squirrel-rat who steals the show with his oft-thwarted struggles to find, keep, and hide his nuts. Some things are different, though. In the second film, a giant, mountain-sized block of ice is melting, and when the wall of ice bursts—for some reason it has stayed frozen, and acts like a dam, even though everything behind it has turned to water—the valley in which the animals live will be flooded. And so the animals who live in that valley embark on an emergency migration to a "boat" that might save them. (It sounds, and looks a bit, like Noah's Ark, but it's actually a tree trunk.) In some ways, the film is reminiscent of Robots, the last Blue Sky production; both that film and Ice Age: The Meltdown revel in clever, complex set-pieces and lowbrow, big-rear-end humor, but fall somewhat short when it comes to character development and interpersonal warmth. Still, if the new film doesn't quite resonate on the same emotional or even spiritual levels that the first film did, it does have a zany energy that sometimes transcends the humor of the first film. Rating: 2.5 Stars (Out of four)

The comments should be on now, so be sure to let us know if you've seen any good movies lately (and what made it good!).

What do we do when no one's looking?

It’s so easy to do the right thing when someone’s hanging over your shoulder, checking out everything you do. I find I get in much more trouble when I’m on my own. Even as an adult, the temptation is there to do something you wouldn’t normally do, just because  no one’s watching. I mean, I know when my boss is out of the office, it’s tempting to spend the whole time talking on IM to Renee or surfing the Web (and sometimes I do give in). But a mark of maturity is being able to push past the desires I want, and instead strive for what’s right.

 

IF you happen to catch this before tonight, think about what makes a mature person. Also think about some famous liars, cheaters and low-down-dirty scoundrels. That useless trivia might be useful for once.

 

I’ll be trying to post several times a week, and I’m also going to try and get the comments turned on. I’d like this blog to be a conversation place. Somewhere you can give feedback on the topics at The Point, discuss issues that arise, read music and movie recommendations, etc. We’ll probably start a Point myspace page as well, so I can cross post messages here and at myspace.

 

Peace.

 

David Jones

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3 March 2006

3 March 2006 Greetings! It is 4:30 in the morning and here I am at the computer. I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. Do you ever have a time when your day/night doesn’t go as planned? Maybe it is God tapping us on the shoulder saying to us…’Hey, talk to me’. If you are like me, we don’t always recognize those times. Last Wednesday night we talked about remembering. God has a lot that he wants us to remember, after all there is this really long book that He gave to us that is just full of history. Our family has a lot of snapshots taken that we have stored in various places so that we can remember that good ole days. I have a bank of pictures in my heart. When I go to that bank to dig up pictures and choose my spiritual album, some of the first pictures I see are snapshots from Mel Gibson’s passion of Christ. I see Jesus getting whipped, I see Nails being drove into His hands. Wednesday night we showed a video clip. Do you remember the big, long rusty nail? That picture is stored. 1 Corinthians 11:23 gives us the order of the Lords Supper. In verse 25 we are told of the new covenant that is sealed by the shedding of His blood. What is this new covenant? It is an agreement between God and us that we can now personally approach God and communicate with Him. By participating in communion, we are remembering what he has done for us and renewing our commitment to serve him. When God taps you, take the time to reach into your heart and pull out a picture. Remember and communicate. God Loves you and so do I, Marc